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At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

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i think it would have to be something along the lines of leaving your feet to launch at the other player would be a good determining factor. that plus leading with your head and aiming directly at the opposing player's face. if they went back to actually tackling instead of trying to make EPSN's highlight reel with a big hit, there would be a lot less ambiguity about the call. it would be harder to call it a hit on a defenseless player if you're wrapping your arms around for a tackle rather than just trying to blow the guy up.

and i think a lot of this comes from something that drives me crazy as a football fan. basically once a player with the ball gets beyond the linebackers, tackling is no longer involved. how many times do you see DBs shoulder block a guy catching a ball near him, 90+%? if the guys actually wrapped their arms around and tackled i think just that in itself could take away some of the helmet to face you see so much of

a lot like i tell my daughter almost daily, don't get yourself in that position to where you can get caught up in something bad. either way it's a very unfortunate situation for all three to be in with their futures potentially changed forever.

as far as sports go The Show is the best baseball game out there. i haven't played this years because i have last years and there really wasn't much new that mattered to me. NHL is always a solid choice as far as sports go as well.

like someone said above, Red Dead Redemption can be found in game of the year edition for around $20 and you can waste away so many hours of your life on. this, just like the show, is more so a single player game IMO but NHL is a blast online but has some good offline features as well.

i'm not going to lie and say that didn't bring a little tear to the eyes. it's great hearing about how these guys who are really still kids themselves putting in the time with kids who i'd imagine just want to forget where they are and why for just a little while.

i ask because i honestly don't know any better but i looked at dead period and quiet period rules and i didn't see anything regarding statements from the university or anything like that as being a rules violation, only against contact beyond "hello" to recruits. what am i missing as far as any rules being broken?

i don't know if i can go against ND. all season long i've pulled against them and hoped for them to lose, even as recently as last week when it was basically a 3-way tie at the top. BUT, now that it's this week and if ND loses it will in all likelihood be an all SEC NC game again, i'm more so pulling against that than a ND win.

i dislike brian kelly and basically the whole ND team but as a college football fan i have gained a lot of respect for Manti Te'o as a football player and as a human this season, so in a way i rationalize it that way i guess.

it's unbelieveable how much they believe it. i talked to a couple last night and one swears about how he knows someone that ran into someone that would know and he said it's a done deal, so it's gotta be the truth. the other tells me about how it was a done deal last week but when you ask why they haven't just come out and said it, this time it's because the MNF deal won't let them announce it until the last monday night game this season, which makes absolutely no sense to at all, but i'm a michigan fan so what do i know.

The fans hate Sunseri almost more than they hate Dooley but then again I know a lot of UT fans personally and they as a whole could possibly be one of the most irrational and delusional fanbases I've ever seen.

USA Today is doing their best to make it happen. so far two SEC teams have passed USC in two weeks even though they haven't lost. same thing happened last year when bama and lsu passed oklahoma while all three teams were undefeated.

i'm not so certain i would "vote" for the voiding of a LOI in the event of a coaching change. you hear all the time that players should commit to the school and not the coach, even though you can't blame an 18 yr old kid for getting attached to people that schmooze him and tell him everything he wants to hear for commiting to the coach rather than the school. i think if nothing else any school that's being investigated by the NCAA and there is even a slight possibility there may be a head coaching change coming because of said investigations, it might keep some players available to other schools by knowing that if they sign the LOI and the coach that offered and promised them more than other schools gets canned they're stuck there and won't be so fast to pull the trigger

I think one other thing that makes a difference is how ESPN likes to tell everyone over and over that the SEC is the best and toughest conference. If you're an 18 yr old kid and you know that you're going to be seen by more people around the country by playing in the SEC because ESPN is going to show the majority of their games and you'll get even more face time on Sportscenter then why wouldn't you want to go there if exposure is one of the big things you're looking for. This I think helps funnel the players to the SEC more so than the other conferences as a whole, perception becomes reality.

that stadium is literally less than 10 miles from my house and the field always looks that way. during the summer they use it as a race track and they have demolition derbys and all kinds of what not there that destroys the field. but you're right, you'd think they could do a little more to make the field at least playable on.

bad thing is it probably will happen with how much espn and all the other press and media love them some SEC. i was pissed when alabama and lsu jumped oklahoma despite the sooners not losing or even having close games as far as i recall

i'll take the blame for this one too, i gave up the traditional #1 jersey for a new M hoodie. it was so soft and comforting i couldn't not wear it. the question i have about that is should i have washed it first before wearing the first time, could that have made the difference. it will definately be washed before next saturday and IF i choose to wear it again an M loses, then anyone want a free hoodie?

i'm hoping for a huge dose of toussaint this year, he absolutely kills in NCAA 11 and 12 so that means he can do it for real right? Fitz has always been one i've been very excited to see what he can do with the chance

i have played the show since 09 and like you purchased a PS3 specifically for the show. i never really got into the pitching much on the previous versions because i could never truely control where the pitches went, they would be close but consistancy is what frustrated me. the meter pitching is wonderful this year, you have much more control over up, down, left and right with the ball. as others have said, the point system is so much better also. you don't usually rack up 150 points in one game, mostly when hitting, like you could easily do in previous versions but you don't get a fail on certain challenges because of the dumbass computer baserunners, you still get points for good contact, timing and/or working the pitch count. as much as it's still the same game, the minor tweaks were a great improvment. and yes the commentating is terrible as a lot of people say but the have some funny lines every now and then.

i always thought that with all the prep work tate did to become a top qb he may have been pretty close to his ceiling as a freshman while denard was so raw his ceiling was so far away. tate was as good as you could have expected as a true freshman but maybe there just wasn't that much room for improvement as far as his capabilities. i still wish the kid well though.

my very un-professional opinion would be that they've actually gotten better. They played close until halftime against oregon, lsu and alabama, to only get blown away later. They have a very average to above average offensive line, tyler bray has really settled down and a backfield with oku and poole has really been moving the ball well. wide receiver justin hunter has come on lately and really turned into a big play receiver along with darrick rogers, they could really do some damage against us.

Since we're on the sujbect of bowl practices, hopefully someone can settle a debate I am having with a co-worker. He says early enrollee players can partcipate in bowl practices but I thought I had read on here once before that they cannot practice. Does anyone have a definate answer on this?

I feel somewhat responsible myself, i had to attend my father's wedding the weekend of MSU and didn't get to see but about 5 minutes of the game but in hopes of rectifying things i started growing my first beard ever after the Iowa loss. Because M will win this weekend i feel inclined to keep the beard for the remainder of the season and the bowl game a la a playoff beard. i think that anyone that did not participate in the mustache growing earlier must join in the beard growing for the greater good of the MGo community and our team.

I agree completely, two wins against non-top 25 teams doesn't mean you're the 20 best in the country. I think there are too many questions still on the defense and special teams. I think more than anything we rode the hype train into the top 25 so far, let's just hope we can keep it rolling and justify the ranking.

Ok now I don't feel like I'm a bad fan because I'm rooting against the Big Ten when I want Ohio State to lose every game they ever play for the rest of eternity. It's almost like I want the entire first and second string to get massive diarrhea every Saturday so that they cannot play and we're left with a community college equivalent Ohio State team out there.

Congratulations man, it's an unmatched feeling in everything that will happen for the rest of your life. No more are there decisions or thought about something that won't involve him. Seven years out from having mine, anytime someone talks about having a baby, in my mind I'm back in that operating room 7 and a half years ago.

i rented madden on release day and i have played one game on it. i play ncaa 11 a lot and switching over to madden was almost painful. you would think game controls on two different and not direct competition as far as franchise is concerned could be the same. the pre-snap controls are so different you can easily kill the play clock just ttrying to find what you're looking for. madden looks awesome but nothing about the game play really impressed me enough to put ncaa down.

on the draft import, this is only one friend of mines situation but he tried to import and players like ryan mallett and jake locker went undrafted. i don't know how often things like this have happened but it doesn't sound too promising.

i picked up one last night for the 360 that was only short by a few teams. the michigan roster was complete and when i glanced through it everything looked ok but basically was just checking names. it is in the locker under name CcAaRrSsOoNn3

take it for what you will but a buddy of mine that lives in knoxville said that the officer was working as a bouncer at the bar so regardless of whether or not they knew he was with the police department, he wasn't just some random guy at the bar.

i've slowly gotten out of the game over the past three years because it's seemed like just a re-hash with a few new sparkles but it seems like this year they have gone all out and put some real effort into making this a great game. if EA can make the jump in one year with this similar to the progress they made in NHL from '08 to '09, this will be a great game. i was sold from the demo but after hearing so many positive things about it even since playing it, i'm really looking forward to playing this next week.

that's what i was saying, there are no UM themed bars but finding the game should not be a problem, it just may not be the top choice of game at any given bar. i live in winston as well and i know indigo joes in kernersville has a florida alum club there which will occupy the big screen but there will be multiple games on multiple tvs.

there is nothing i know of west of spring hope. i am about 130 miles west of there in the greensboro area and there is nothing around here. also knowing the area between here and raleigh, there really is nothing particular in between. that being said, you shouldn't have much of a problem finding somewhere that will have the game on, but don't expect it to be on the biggest tv in the place, especially if wake forest/unc/nc state is playing at the same time.

this is freaking sweet, especially considering i work at dell and get discounts on top of the $20. i ordered mine and it said estimated delivery dat of 7/9, which obviously isn't going to happen but if it ships on 7/9 hopefully i'll have it by release date. thanks OP

NHL '10 is a great game to play and never seems to drop on the interest level. I don't know if this is an option for where you guys live but the blockbuster videos in NC have a package now for $20 a month you can rent as many games as you want. you can keep one for that month or switch out every 30 minutes if you wanted to.

as for NCAA/FIFA, i played FIFA for the first time a couple of night ago and it seemed ok but given the fact i don't care much for soccer, i don't see myself playing much, but it looks great and has great reviews. just going off of the NCAA demo, i feel like i'm going to be losing many hours of my life to this game and i'm ok with that. it looks great and the gameplay is really smooth.

i saw this video on ESPN late last year about John Wooden and we know he was a great coach but i think this speaks to him being an even greater person than coach. it's a great story about his love for his wife, i could only one day wish to this kind of love in my life.http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4691772

oh i definately agree, sometimes i feel bad going in to the store and getting $5 worth of tickets and see the guy scraping up change to get one ticket in the hopes of changing his life. sometimes it's a good break from the reality of life to at least dream about what you would/could do with that kind of money.

that is a definate foregone conclusion that i will never win but the drawing is tonight and hey, i can dream can't i? that being said, IF i ever do, brian and mgoblog will be well compensated so that it may continue to beyond the days that i am senile and shit my pants on a daily basis.

as i've sat here and thought about it, if say for example, i won the $260 mil, taxes and penalties for lump sum would make it around $130 mil i would get. with official and legal paperwork the mother would probably get a good chunk, maybe a mil or so to take it and be done with it, but as i've seen time and again, here at least, single mothers can get away with basically anything and still look like the better person in most situations.

a lot of people forget , or don't realize, how important ross brawn was to schumachers success back in the day so, to me, last years run by brawn wasn't as big of a surprise to me as much as this years down year is. i understand what you're saying about sponsership money but it's not like the team is broke this year. i know the guys that cover the races know tons more than i do about the details of it all, but this team won the WC last year and i know button got a good sum of that money but to think that a racing and aerodynamic genius like ross brawn would be this far behind after 5 races is astonishing to me,

i think you're spot on by calling hamilton "entitled" because that seems to be the way he's treated. the race in china two weeks ago is a perfect example of what seems to be the rules being bent to keep lewis looking good as well as, i believe it was the race in australia, with lewis basically weaving back and forth over the whole track to block a pass. i do agree that i liked the sport much better when the cars were basically balls out and it was all about speed more than science, but i guess i've grown accustomed to what we have and enjoy it still the same.

i must admit that i really like kimi and was elated when he won the WC, partly because it was with ferrari but also because the guy is a dick and knows it and wants to make sure everyone else knows it but when it came to on track he was always professional, to my best recollection,.

100% agree on button, this guy's career was all but done when he drove for BAR honda and then later just honda. never made Q3 in qualifying, never had a podium but as soon as he was in a superior car, by default since honda became brawn gp, he's the best thing in he world now, according to the media.

sebastian vettel is a great driver, you could see that in the couple of races he drove for bmw when kubica was injured a few years ago. add adrian newey into the mix and he has a great car week in and week out. red bull was garbage until they got their first podium and then race win and since then basically have become, team wise, the best team out there, baring reliability issues.

i'm very glad to see something about F1 because it's something i've been hooked on for the past 8 years. being from the south where nascar is the only racing anyone talks about it's hard to find knowledgable fans to discuss it with. i've been a huge schumacher from day 1 and i guess he's made me stick with ferrari ever since he retired 3 years ago. as much as i dis-liked alonso from his renault days and even worse in the year with mclaren, he's probably my favoite driver these days. lewis hamilton is one i don't care for, mainly how the media and f1 seems to coddle him so much as the next great thing, so needless to say i was smiling a little bit when he crashed out with 2 laps to go this weekend.

to your point about alonso and immature behavior, he is without a doubt one of the bigger egos in f1 but once i stopped hating him so much for beating my beloved ferrari team, i realized he really is an incredible driver and the one i'm rooting for to bring home the world championship. i'm really looking forward to monte carlo, it's always one of the most hyped races and one you feel like you have to watch even though a lot of times it is a little more boring than other races as far as overtaking and what not go.

if you have even just a slight interest in baseball then MLB The Show '10 is a must play. The road to the show, create a player, is the best out there. the realism and crispness of the game play and video is unmatched. it's basically a legal form of crack.

heavy rain is a really good game. i got it on release week and played it a lot. the only downside to it, IMO, is that you can actually get so caught up in the story that you forget you're playing a game and they small small controller movements that you have to do here and there to make you realize that you're still playing a game. as much as i enjoy it i would suggest a rental when you have a decent amount of time to really try it out before buying it. the replay value to me seems the biggest downside.

what they're basically doing is since madden was overhauled so well last year they are switching development teams so basically the team that created madden last year will be doing ncaa. ea will never do a complete overhaul on both games in the same year, and barely do they overhaul anything every couple of years. ea sports pushes out the same recycled game every year and make a few small changes that really mean nothing to the gameplay. we keep buying recycled crap so they keep recycling the same crap.

the e74 error is supposedly more so the AV cables than anything else. i'd check to see if you can get ahold of some spare cables, maybe from a buddy just to check it out. the towel trick has nothing to do with the e74 error, it helps on the over heating issue. here is a link that has a pretty good step by step tutorial on how to fix the red rings. ignore the ads on the page and scroll down and look to the left and it has a disassembly guide and a repair guide. it's the one i used when i had no clue what i was doing and it worked without a hitch.

I'm hearing Tiger Woods 11 will have a GTA theme to it.. You start out by playing in small tournaments to save money.. Eventually you can buy Golf courses, mansions and not to mention tons of women..and groupies will cost extra

if i could but all i can spare is +1 until payday. if your "inside info" continues to gets results like this, i'll probably start to believe anything you ever say, even if you told me i was elvis presley, i'd believe you

LBP is a realy great game and time killer as well. there is a demo on PSN store where you can give it a shot to see what you think. if this is an option for you, the demo on the PSP is a much better indicator of the game play, at least what i made it through on the PS3 demo

the guys are right NHL '10 or hell even '09 if it's just a time killer game is absolutely AWESOME. IME MLB '09 The Show is the best PS3 specific game ever created, it's worse than fucking crack. you can easily lose 7 hours of your day, every day, on the "road to the show" function of the game.

most USCers love the guy because of his douchiness. tennessee fans LOVED the guy because he was a dick. he's no more than a flashy car salesman but i'd bet most of his recruits look at the staff he has around him and are impressed by that more so than by him.

at least he hasn't told any recruits that God want them there, that we know of

this was mentioned today during the press conference by AD Mike Hamilton and in his words the kids that were enrolled as of midnight this morning are considered enrolled at UT and would have to go through the normal transfer process and have to sit out a year. i am looking for a link to this as well.

everything that i have been hearing about eric berrys brother is that he was commited to UT long before Kiffin ever came along. according to eric berry his younger brother is a much more talented football player. i see no reason for the younger berry to go anywhere but UT. granted i have no sources for this because i don't feel like digging around, this is based off of the dozen or so die hard UT fans i work with and have to listen to ramble everyday about them.

being in NC, about 2 hours from TN, i work with and know quite a few TN fans and they are all extremely pissed today. even 2 days ago they all loved him because in their words, "he's a dickhead". now it all amuses me how UT fans are getting screwed by that dickhead. was it a shitty move by him and his staff, sure but can you blame they guy? they do and they will continue to do so. a couple of the Vols message boards even put Lane and Layla Kiffins personal cell numbers up for all to see. I did get quite a bit of amusement out of hearing some people leave these obnoxious messages on their voice mails.

I live in pretty much the center of NC and the past three days, because that is as far back as i can remember, every morning coming to work at 5:30 am the temp has been around 15 degrees. You guys up there may be more used to it but 2 straight weeks of sub freezing temps here is really rare.

As much as I am getting bored with hearing of the Eric Berry for Heisman campaign too, I must admit he is one hell of an athlete. I traveled to Tennessee last fall to watch the game vs Northern Illinois and he was very impressive. I don't remember stats but there was one big INT. He is involved in every play no matter where on the field he is. I went back a little over two weeks ago to watch the Tennessee scrimmage game and just the enthusiasm this kid bring is contagious. I was even more so impressed by him as a person when in the second half, the defensive starters were running stairs. He had already made one trip around and was on his ssecond trip when we went down to try to get a picture. There was a kid there, 8 years old or so, that asked if he could sign a helmet for him. Not only did he stop to at least acknowledge the kid, he made the comment that to do so he would need to hide behind the partition wall because if his coach saw him he would be in some serious trouble. It's refreshing these days to see a nationally known athlete has not let the attention shown on him change his promise he has openly made that he will never deny a fan, especially a child, an autograph or a moment of his time. Is he a Heisman winning player, probably not given the fact that his team will not be contending for a NC, but having seen him in person twice I do admit he's very deserving of all of the praise he's gotten.